List of applications of near-field communication explained

, several hundred trials of near-field communication have been conducted. Some firms have moved to full-scale service deployments, spanning either a single country or multiple countries.

Multi-country deployments include Orange's roll-out of NFC technology to banks, retailers, transport, and service providers in multiple European countries, and Airtel Africa and Oberthur Technologies deploying to 15 countries throughout Africa.

Africa

Kenya

• Public transport: The Nairobi-based Citi Hoppa bus company has partnered with Beba to offer NFC enabled proximity cards for fare payments. Citi Hoppa staff use the Huawei Sonic NFC enabled phone to process these transactions.

Libya

• Mobile payments: LPTIC, Al Madar, Libyana

South Africa

• Public transport: Aconite, Proxema
• Mobile payments: Absa

Europe

Austria

• Public transport: Mobilkom Austria (A1), ÖBB, Vienna Lines

Belgium

• Mobile payments: Belgacom, Mobistar, Base
• Paper vouchers study: IBBT, Clear2Pay/Integri, Keyware, Accor Services

Croatia

• Public transport (ZET, Zagreb)
• Payment (Erste Bank Croatia, MasterCard PayPass system)

Czech Republic

• Mobile payments: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Komerční banka, Citibank Europe, Globus, Visa Europe, Baumax, Cinema City, Ikea
• NFC Access Control: IMA ltd. developed in 2009 a standalone access control system PATRON-PRO programmed by NFC enabled phone.

Denmark

• Mobile payment vending machines: NFC & SMS payment, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, NFC Danmark.

France

• Home healthcare: ADMR, Extelia, Inside Contactless, Abrapa
• Field service: Orange France
• Event ticketing: Stade de France, Orange
• Museum services: Centre Pompidou
• National NFC infrastructure: Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Marseille, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Nice, French Government^[1]
• Nice, Ville NFC: Gemalto, Oberthur Technologies, multi-bank (BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale) with MasterCard, Visa Europe, Veolia Transport
• Loyalty programs: La Croissanterie, Rica Lewis, Game in Nice
• Public transport: Veolia Transport in Nice

Germany

• Public transport (selected regions): VRR, RMV and Deutsche Bahn (combines the companies' previous HandyTicket and Touch & Travel programs)
• Mobile workforce management: ENAiKOON
• Mobile payment: Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany, Telefónica 02 Germany
• Health insurance card: All public health insurance providers
• NFC-based Card Game

Hungary

• Event ticketing: Sziget Festival, Vodafone Hungary

Ireland

• Loyalty program: AIB Merchant Services (Allied Irish Bank, First Data), Zapa Technology

Italy

• Mobile payment: Telecom Italia.
• Public transport: ATM (Milan),^[2] CAP autolinee (Prato).
• Contactless payment cards: Intesa Sanpaolo, MasterCard, Gemalto.
• Anti-counterfeiting: Tag Over.^[3]

Lithuania

• Mobile payments: Mokipay

The Netherlands

• Public transport: OV-chipkaart
• Commercial services: T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN, Rabobank, ABN Amro, ING.
• Employee payments: Rabobank, Multicard

Norway

• Airline Smart Pass: SAS Scandinavian Airlines introduces an NFC-based Smart Pass for frequent flyers, and the aviation industry's adoption of NFC is now truly underway.^[4]
• Payments with MobilePay by Danske Bank.
• Public transport tickets in most cities.

Poland

• Mobile payments: Polkomtel, Bank Zachodni WBK; PTC, Inteligo; Orange, Bank Zachodni WBK^[5]

Romania

• Public transport: Metrorex, RATT^[6] and RATB^[7]
• Guard patrol monitoring: nLogix

Russia

• Public transport: Yekaterinburg Metro and MegaFon^[8]
• Public transport: Moscow Metro and Mobile TeleSystems^[9]

Slovenia

• Mobile payments, marketing: Banka Koper, Cassis International, Inside Contactless, System Orga, Mobitel

Spain

• Mobile shopping: Telefónica, Visa, La Caixa (Sitges)
• Public transport: Bankinter, Ericsson, Empresa Municipal de Transportes (Madrid); Vodafone, Entidad Publica del Transporte (Murcia)
• Event product payments: Mobile World Congress, GSMA, Telefónica, Visa, Samsung, Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International, La Caixa
• Employee payment, building access: Telefónica Espana, La Caixa, BBVA, Bankinter, Visa, Samsung, Oberthur, Autogrill, Giesecke & Devrient

Sweden

• Airline Smart Pass: SAS Scandinavian Airlines introduces an NFC-based Smart Pass for frequent flyers, and the aviation industry's adoption of NFC is now truly underway.^[4]
• Hotel keys: Choice Hotels Scandinavia, Assa Abloy, TeliaSonera, VingCard Elsafe, Venyon (Stockholm)
• Transportation: Pay as you go in Southern Sweden with NFC enabled "Jojo cards"^[10]

Switzerland

• Phone service kiosk: Sicap, Swisscom
• Mobile wallet^[11]

Turkey

• Yapı ve Kredi Bankası and Turkcell, NFC is used on mobile payment all over Turkey with Yapı ve Kredi Bankası credit cards via mobile phones using Turkcell sim cards^{[12] [13]}
• Mobile payments: Yapi Kredi, Turkcell, Wireless Dynamics; Avea, Garanti Bank, Gemalto
• Device testing: Visa Europe, Akbank

United Kingdom

• Contactless payment: Transport for London
• Transport study: Department for Transport, Consult Hyperion
• Mobile payments: Waspit, Yates; Barclaycard and Everything Everywhere (Orange, T-Mobile)

North America

Canada

• Contactless Payment Cards: MasterCard Paypass, Visa PayWave
• Mobile wallet: Tim Hortons TimmyME BlackBerry 10 Application;^[14] Zoompass, offered by Bell Mobility, Rogers and Telus (Enstream)
• Public Transit: Presto card, Compass Card (TransLink)
• TAPmeTAGS Opens In Canada: Offered by Synaptic Vision Inc.^[15]

United States

• Device trial: Bank of America, Device Fidelity; US Bank, Device Fidelity, FIS, Montise
• Mobile payments: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile; Adirondack Trust; Community State Bank; Bankers Bank of the West; PayPal; Bank of America;^[16] US Bank;^[17] Wells Fargo;^[18] Blackboard; Google Wallet; Apple pay.
• Community Marketing and Business Rating: Google Places: Portland, OR; Austin, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Madison, WI; Charlotte, NC.
• Public transit: Visa, New York City Transit, NJ Transit, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Chicago Transit Authority, LA Metro (Los Angeles, CA)

Asia

China

• Mobile payments: China Unicom, Bank of Communications, China UnionPay
• Mobile transport ticketing: China Unicom

Hong Kong (China)

• Contactless Payment/Public Transit: Octopus card

India

• Mobile banking: A Little World; Citibank India
• Tata Docomo, MegaSoft XIUS (Hyderabad)
• PayMate have partnered Nokia to deploy NFC payment solution for mass market in India through Nokia NFC enabled handsets.
• Tagstand partnered with Paymate to deploy an NFC marketing campaign for Nokia and the movie Ra-One in priority partner stores across India.
• jusTap! has tied up with CineMAX to implement NFC campaign using nfc enabled smart posters at the movie theaters in Mumbai
• jusTap! partners with Game4u to launch the first of its kind retail in‐store experience using NFC across India

Japan

• Consumer services: Softbank Mobile, Credit Saison, Orient Corporation^[19]
• Consumer services: KDDI, Toyota, Orient Corporation, Credit Saison, Aiwa Card Services, MasterCard, Nomura Research Institute, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Toho Cinemas, Dai Nippon Printing, NTT Data, T-Engine, IBM, Japan Remote Control Co., Hitachi, Gemalto^[20]
• Consumer services: NTT Docomo and KT
• Social networking: Mixi

Malaysia

• Clixster
• Maxis FastTap
• Touch n Go

Philippines

• Consumer and commercial services: Jollibee Happyplus Card
• Xcite Republic: J Centre Mall

South Korea

• Consumer and commercial services: KT solo and with NTT Docomo
• Cross-border services (with Japan): SK Telecom, KDDI, Softbank
• Mobile payment: SK Telecom, Hana SK Card
• Guided shopping: SK Telecom

Singapore

• Mobile payments:MasterCard, DBS Bank, StarHub, EZ-Link, Gemalto

Sri Lanka

• Public transport: Dialog Axiata
• Public transport: Mobitel
• Contactless Payment Cards: Hatton National Bank & AirtelDialog Axiata
• Contactless Payment Cards: Sampath Bank

Thailand

• Mobile payments: Kasikorn Bank, AIS, Gemalto,^[21] AIS mPay Rabbit

Vietnam

Australasia

Australia

• Mobile payments: m Payments Pty Ltd
• Contactless Micro Payment Cards: m Payments Pty Ltd
• Contactless Payment and Loyalty: m Payments Pty Ltd
• Mobile payments: Visa and ANZ Banking Group
• Mobile payments: PayPass and Facebook and Commonwealth Bank Australia by Commbank Kaching

New Zealand

• Full real time Multi-Currency NFC system linked to New Zealand, Tonga, Australia, Fiji and Samoa, including BPay: (KlickEx, Digicel and Verifone)^[22]

Middle East

Israel

• Rav Kav - An electronic ticket used in all public transportation companies over Israel. was first introduced in August 2007 by the Ministry of Transportation of the state of Israel, first offered on August 28, 2007 by Kavim bus company, and since January 2009 used as nationwide payment method in all public transportation companies, includes: all bus companies, Israel Railways and the Jerusalem Light Rail.
• The First NFC news&shop website^[23]

South America

Brazil

• Mobile payments: Oi Paggo, Paggo from Oi, Germalto's Upteq N-Flex

See also

• FeliCa
• MIFARE
• M-Pesa
• Near and far field
• Object hyperlinking
• Poken
• RFID
• RuBee
• Single Wire Protocol
• TransferJet
• Wii U GamePad

References

• Web site: Ortiz . C. Enrique . An Introduction to Near-Field Communication and the Contactless Communication API . June 2006 . 2008-10-24 .
• Book: Kasper, Timo . Dario Carluccio . Christof Paar . Information Security Theory and Practices. Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems . An Embedded System for Practical Security Analysis of Contactless Smartcards . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 4462 . 150–60 . May 2007 . 10.1007/978-3-540-72354-7_13 . 978-3-540-72353-0 . free . Springer . Berlin.

Further reading

• Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology and Measurements

External links

• A day at MIT with Near-Field Communication (vimeo.com)

Notes and References

1. Web site: French government funds nine NFC cities . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . January 13, 2011 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809170626/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2011/01/13/35630/french-government-funds-nine-nfc-cities/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
2. Web site: Milan to get NFC ticketing system . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . March 28, 2011 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809164449/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2011/03/28/36639/milan-to-get-nfc-ticketing-system/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
3. Web site: Etichette NFC anti contraffazione: il progetto italiano di Tag Over . appnfc.it . August 26, 2014 . August 14, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150202043717/http://appnfc.it/applicazioni/etichette-nfc-anti-contraffazione-il-progetto-italiano-di-tag-over.html . February 2, 2015 . live .
4. Web site: SAS Scandinavian Airlines introduces an NFC-based Smart Pass for frequent flyers. June 2011. Future Travel Experience. 2012-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120604081114/http://www.futuretravelexperience.com/2011/06/sas-launches-nfc-smart-pass/. 2012-06-04. live.
5. Web site: Telepolis . Polish . PL . 3 October 2010 . 22 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320034854/http://www.telepolis.pl/news.php?id=20930 . 20 March 2012 . live .
6. Web site: Ratt . RO . ratt.ro . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425083831/http://www.ratt.ro/taxare/ . 2012-04-25 . live .
7. Web site: Portofelul electronic este o facilitate a Cardului ACTIV ce poate fi activata prin centrele RATB de emitere si reincarcare carduri . card.ratb.ro . RO . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728060544/http://card.ratb.ro/ . 2011-07-28 . live .
8. Web site: E-Card . RU . 2012-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233616/http://www.ekarta-ek.ru/news/2012/10/02/482/ . 2016-03-03 . live .
9. Web site: Mosmetro . RU . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307152711/http://engl.mosmetro.ru/pages/page_1.php?id_page=56&id_text=956 . 2012-03-07 .
10. Web site: Jojo Pay as you go - Skanetrafiken . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120525041921/http://www.skanetrafiken.se/templates/InformationPage.aspx?id=13848&epslanguage=EN . 2012-05-25 . dead .
11. http://www.tapit.ch{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
12. Web site: World Mobil Ödeme Özelliği: PayMobile . Worldcard . TR . Turkish . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042131/http://www.worldcard.com.tr/worldu-taniyin/paymobile/ . 2016-03-04 . live .
13. Web site: Turkcell Cep-T Cüzdan . TR . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110505075313/http://www.turkcell.com.tr/bireysel/servisler/ceptfinans/turkcellceptcuzdan . 2011-05-05 . live .
14. Web site: Tim Hortons launches NFC payments service using Host Card Emulation • NFC World. 13 December 2013. 14 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190110234705/https://www.nfcworld.com/2013/12/13/327339/tim-hortons-launches-nfc-payments-service-using-host-card-emulation/. 10 January 2019. live.
15. Web site: TapMeTags opens in Canada • NFC World. Mike. Clark. 4 April 2012. 14 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20170305034553/https://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/04/314998/tapmetags-opens-in-canada/. 5 March 2017. live.
16. Web site: Collins . Hugh . Bank of America, Visa to Test Smartphone Payment Program . DailyFinance . 2010-10-14 . 2010-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100823084209/http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/bank-of-america-visa-to-test-smartphone-payment-program/19601600/ . 2010-08-23 . live .
17. Web site: US Bank to test NFC to Q4 2010 . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . June 7, 2010 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110802072044/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/06/07/33866/us-bank-to-test-nfc-in-q4-2010/ . August 2, 2011 . live .
18. Web site: Wells Fargo to run NFC field trial . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . September 2, 2010 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809173333/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/09/02/34392/wells-fargo-to-run-nfc-field-trial/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
19. Web site: Softbank to test NFC in Japan . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . December 15, 2010 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809172422/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/04/22/33481/kddi-to-run-multiple-nfc-tests-in-japan/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
20. Web site: KDDI to run multiple NFC tests in Japan . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . April 22, 2010 . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809172422/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/04/22/33481/kddi-to-run-multiple-nfc-tests-in-japan/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
21. Web site: Mobile payments: Kasikornban, AIS, Gemalto . July 10, 2010 . nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com . June 22, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809162139/http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/07/20/34170/kasikornbank-and-ais-introduce-nfc-payments-in-thailand/ . August 9, 2011 . live .
22. Web site: New York Times. 2012-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20170305042249/http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docTag=201205140800PR_NEWS_USPRX____HK05569&feedID=600&press_symbol=1694716. 2017-03-05. live.
23. Web site: NFC Israel. SemiColonWeb. 2019-08-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018033917/http://nfc-israel.co.il/. 2018-10-18. live.